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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1923
Page
2
State Agricultural College at Bozeman authors lead articles describing state and federal funded tillage experiments in Montana. The papers urge readers to file away these articles as results of ongoing fieldwork and guidance for better farming practices.
Fergus County Farm Bureau boards discuss potato marketing unit corn variety demonstrations and diversification projects across the county. Plans include poultry education campaigns, demonstrations at Lewistown Castle Butte and Forest Grove, and a July camp at the county fair grounds. The group also outlines county picnics and a labor market stance amid rising wages.
Dr. Howard Welch of Montana State College warns April feeding determines Western livestock losses. He cautions against early washy grass and urges bright hay, grain supplements, and careful handling of cattle, sheep, and hogs to strengthen breeding stock and improve milk, vitality, and future hides.
Guidance on when and how to plant common vegetables including lettuce radish spinach kale cabbage cauliflower peas beans carrot beet turnip onions and squash. Details cover seed depth spacing timing for spring summer and fall crops with notes on starting in hotbeds and hardening plants.
County agent F E MacSpadden reports a fair winter wheat outlook for Cascade county with many fields vigorous and starting to head. Spring wheat drilling is expected on a large acreage with Marquis likely to lead varieties followed by Kubanka and Pellis in durum. Red Bobs, a new Canadian variety from breeder Segar Wheeler, is being tested on small tracts.
Prices for furs rise across the market with coyotes fetching up to 27 dollars for fine skins and beaver pelts sought by firms at 2 to 25 dollars. The state bounty ends May 6 after a March 6 ruling voided the bounty law while allowing claims for pelts within 60 days of killing.
Farmers on irrigated land near Saco form a Grimm alfalfa growers association under the county agent and state college extension. They plan a cooperative to standardize on Grimm seed, develop harvesting and cleaning plans, and expand acreage as demand grows in Montana’s Milk River valley.
The Ohio Oil Company delays spudding the Sherard No. 1 structure south of Big Sandy. The test well will be spudded in this week after the delay earlier this week.
Washington J. R. McCarl of Nebraska, two years after taking the newly created office of comptroller general, declares that cabinet officers must bow to his fiscal authority and lays down the law to Secretary Denby in support of his claim.
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